Feature Article: Strategies for Staying Upbeat During a Long Job-Search
Special Feature: The Pros and Cons of Taking a Survival Job: What Should You Do?
Q&A with a Career Expert: Lorie Lebert
Quintessential Site: Featured Career Web Site of this Issue
The Career Doctor: Answering Your Questions
What's New on Quintessential Careers
Q TIPS: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search
Notes from the Editor: About this Issue...
Belated happy new year greetings to you, our readers. We hope your
new year is getting off to a promising start for your career.
But if not, QuintZine is here to help with two articles and an expert Q&A
that all focus on survival jobs and maintaining a positive attitude in the face of a protracted and difficult job
search.
--Katharine Hansen, Credentialed Career Master, Certified Electronic Career Coach,
and editor at
kathy@quintcareers.com
Feature Article: Staying Upbeat During Job-Search
Strategies for Staying Upbeat During a Long Job-Search
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Lack of success in a job search can take its toll as the time looking extends much
longer than you originally thought, especially if you are unemployed. You may begin to question
your skills and abilities and whether you will ever again find a job in your field. What can
you do to break the potential downward spiral and remain upbeat and optimistic about your
future prospects? Our article offers some
strategies for helping you get through this rough patch in your career.
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The Pros and Cons of Taking a Survival Job. What Should You Do?
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Survival Job: Typically a low-end, low-paying job
that a displaced job-seeker takes on a temporary
basis (often as a last resort) to cover basic living
costs, in order to survive and avoid bankruptcy --
or worse.
You are out of work, your benefits have expired, and your savings are quickly being depleted. You've cut
expenses, but you still have those monthly bills to pay. For whatever reason, the employment picture for your
profession looks bleak. Now is the time to make a decision about whether or not you should take a
survival job -- any job -- just to help you make ends meet until an opportunity in your field opens
again.
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Lorie Lebert is a Certified Career Management Coach, International Job and Career
Transition Coach, and Certified Professional Resume Writer.
Among the top tips Lebert advises for keeping a positive attitude during a tough job search:
Have realistic expectations about how long the job search might take.
Get help and support from others.
Maintain a healthy lifestyle (eating, exercise), and a
positive attitude (maintain associations with
those employed as well as those searching).
Understand that failure is an event -- not a person. Success is a process.
Read more of Lebert's advice, including resume mistakes
that prolong job searches, avoiding unproductive use of job-search
time, how to stand out in a tough job market, and how to choose
the right career, in
our full Q&A with her.
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Based on years of research, the Jackson Vocational Interest
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interview was with the hiring manager, and the second was with his peers and superiors. The second interview went
extremely well, and the hiring manager even told me I did great! I followed-up with an e-mail two weeks after the
second interview with the hiring manager and did not receive any response. I also followed up with him via telephone
and got his secretary who informed me the company was still in the process of interviewing for the position. How do I
find out where I stand, and how can I get to speak directly with the hiring manager without appearing too anxious/desperate?"
Anonymous writes:"I am writing you to ask you for some expert help on what would be the best way to go about
getting a pharmaceutical sales-rep job. Like what should I major in? Whether to get a bachelor's or master's degree?"
Furqan writes: "I have a bachelor's degree in finance. I have not yet gotten any experience. I want to further
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Find even more career and job site additions to Quintessential Careers by visiting our
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So what will happen when the economy turns? A recent HR.com/Bernard Haldane survey indicated that 30 percent
of the firms surveyed still were planning to increase head count for 2004, confirming that this is
still a great time to look for work. In addition, a recent poll from Monster indicated that 93 percent of its
audience intends to look for a new career in 2004, with 61 percent indicating that finding a new job is their
top New Year's resolution -- compared to only 19 percent who were looking to lose weight!
Fifty-six percent of human-resources professionals and employees agree that staff turnover will rise
significantly once the job market improves, most likely within a year, according to the latest Job
Recovery Survey by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and CareerJournal.com, the executive
career site of The Wall Street Journal.
Marc Pramuk offers these key recruiting and staffing trends to watch for in 2004 and beyond. Pramuk is program manager,
HR Management & Staffing Services Research, at IDC.
A modest return to new-job creation.
Increased use of temporary and project-based labor.
Greater investment in internal mobility.
Broadening use of workforce-management measurement
and analytics.
Integration of staffing with performance management
and learning.
Overall, 2004 will be a transitional year in recruiting and staffing, Pramuk predicts, noting moderate optimism
for a recovery in the job market in general.
You
can read the full description of the trends, where free registration
is required to read the article.
No. 3: With the list of words from Tip #2 that YOU think describe you best, talk to someone
you trust about your list and ask that person to describe you. Compare the lists.
Write down the person's views. You will be begin to see a pattern emerge about
your personal values, interests and SKILL WORDS....to be continued...
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QuintZine: Topics in Upcoming Issues
WATCH FOR feature articles on these topics in upcoming
issues of QuintZine:
* Dining etiquette
* Following Up All Job Leads: Don't Wait by the Phone
* Identifying Hiring Managers
* Ten Tips for Creating a Career That Lights Your Fire
* Identifying Your Passion's "Building Blocks"
* Career Assessment for New Grads
* Turning an Internship into a Job
* 10 Career Change Mistakes to Avoid
* Resumes for New Grads
* 10 Resume Mistakes
* The Scoop on Resume Length
* Moonlighting/Holding Multiple Jobs
* Career Focus Quiz
* Overcoming a Lack of Qualifications/Credentials
* Fighting the Overqualified Label
* Surviving and Moving Beyond Low-Wage Jobs
* Pre-Employment Testing
* 10 Things for High-School Students to Remember
* First in a Series Tracking College Plans of a High School Student
* Importance of Junior Year of High School
* How to Make a Temp Job Permanent
* Temping Your Way to Career Change
* Mastering Second (and Subsequent) Interviews
* Interview Damage Control
* 10 Interview Mistakes
* Exude Confidence in Interviews
* Job Satisfaction Quiz
* Job-search Time-Management Skills
* Reinvent Your Career at Midlife
* Working Beyond Retirement
* Workaholic Quiz
* Building Your Brand
* Pros and Cons of Nontraditional Careers
* Nontraditional Career Paths for Men and Women
* Make Your College Application Shine
* Changing Landscape of College Admissions
* College Admissions Annual Report/Panel Discussion
* Internet Jobhunting Annual Report
* Top 5 Networking Strategies
* Quintessential Career Profiles of YOU, our readers
* Q&As with well-known career experts
* Book reviews
. . . and much, much more!
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